TOWN OF BARNES

MINUTES OF THE

SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING

Of September 10, 2009

Chairperson Lu Peet called the Special Town Board Meeting to order at 5:00PM. The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

Agenda

 

1)                   Selection of Building and Maintenance Committee members

2)                   The Board will begin looking over budget requests from departments for the 2010 budget season.

 

Brustad said 5 people had showed interest in joining the committee.  They are: Margaret Bossow, Greg Martin, Steve Hunter, Mike Trembley and Bob Paszak. 

 Motion (Porter/McGee) to nominate the above 5 people to the committee.  Jerry Witt also should be included in the meetings.   Both inspection reports should be given to the members, and Mitch McGee will be the liaison from the Board.  The committee should be given exact information as to what they should be doing.  They need to prioritize all the items needing to be done.  Motion carried.

 

For budgets, Supervisor Webb said we first should decide on when the budget hearing should be then go backwards to set up budget meetings.  November 12th will be the budget hearing and Special Town meeting.  For this date to work, the budget must be finalized by October 19th in order to get it posted and the hearing published for the 15 day timeline.  Three other meetings were decided on, September 24th with a closed session for reviews starting at 5:00PM.  Then October 8th and October 15th will be the last two meetings. 

Revenues were discussed by the Board.  The ambulance fee schedule should be put on the agenda for the next Regular Town Board meeting to discuss increasing the fees.  Clerk-Treasurer Brustad should call Advantage billing to see what others are charging.  Fire fees should also put on the agenda for discussion.  Also discussed was possibility of one evening for the Transfer site being open.  The Board will discuss that with Tom Pieters during the reviews to see if he has any ideas or objections.  Also discussed was whether there was anyone who took TV’s that the town could contract with or whether the Clean Sweep could be done in Barnes for the next summer.  The next meeting is on Thursday, September 24th at 5:00PM.

 

Motion (Webb/McGee) to adjourn the Special Town Board meeting of September 10, 2009.  Motion carried.  The meeting adjourned at 6:45PM.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

 

 

Elaine J. Brustad,

Clerk-Treasurer

Dated this 17th day of September, 2009